Yuri Bashmet | Ksenia Bashmet
Brahms by the Bashmets
- Type CD
- Label Fondamenta
- UPC 0190758114125
- Catalog number FON 1802030
- Release date 09 March 2018
About the album
The works of chamber music that showcase the timbre of the viola, so delicate and so profoundly human, are relatively scarce.
Brahms’ two sonatas, Op. 120, elegant and highly expressive, sublimate the extreme sensitivity of the viola with a simplicity that only perfect mastery of musical composition can achieve. The music of Brahms and Yuri Bashmet's viola were made to meet each other. Admirably accompanied by his daughter, Ksenia Bashmet, he takes us into a world of depth, virtuosity and aesthetic prowess.
As if a butterfly-viola were playing a flower-piano, they fly together in a frenzied pursuit, only to end in the burst of laughter of a chord which we know ahead of time can only be perfect.
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11Sonata for Viola and Piano in F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1 I. Allegro appassionato
09:01 -
12Sonata for Viola and Piano in F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1 II. Andante un poco adagio
05:25 -
13Sonata for Viola and Piano in F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1 III. Allegro grazioso
04:57 -
14Sonata for Viola and Piano in F Minor, Op. 120, No. 1 IV. Vivace
06:03 -
15Rhapsody for solo Piano in B Minor, Op. 79, No. 1
10:54 -
16Rhapsody for solo Piano in G Minor, Op. 79, No. 2
07:35 -
17Sonata for Viola and Piano in E-Flat Major, Op. 120, No. 2 I. Allegro amabile
09:37 -
18Sonata for Viola and Piano in E-Flat Major, Op. 120, No. 2 II. Allegro appassionato
06:23 -
19Sonata for Viola and Piano in E-Flat Major, Op. 120, No. 2 III. Andante con moto - Allegro
07:58